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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

VIZ. III ~ bis'hdt IhiAhPs
Where 10 You 20 from here,r
1 go Ia my home in Mansfield, where l IN
tend 10 take "A solid weeks rest
YOU'RE going home to look after your
fences, of course?"
The senator laughed heartily.
DO You know" he inquired, "how that ex-
preston originated. No. Then III tell YOU.
While was secretary Of the treasury came
home 20 Mansfield for few days at one time.
As soon rs got there there was an influx of
newspaper correspondents from all parts
Som. Of them Announced that | was getting
ready to run for governor; others that was
working up boom for the presidential nom
InatSon. one of them came to me and boldly
asked me what was doing in Ohio 1t Just
happened that on that day | had contracted
with man torcpair some fences on my place
that were in a tumble down condition ST
when that newspaper man asked me what
was doing N Ohio told him that had come
home 10 look after my fences He published
what said, the expression was taken up by
the papers AMI went all over IL has even
been used ON some occasions in the British
parliament. It's funny how these political
eNpressiuiiS originate. In some city Just he
fore election the Democrats employed an i'm
mense number of laborers to lay water pipes
That's what gave rise TO the expression lay
ing pipes Nou remember that at one time
the Democrats were called Locofocos During
Democratic meeting III New York the par
ticipants became SO turbulent that il became
necessary to exiingujsh the lights. The par
ticipants, left i'll tot:l darkness, pulled out
iocofocos, as the old fashioned matches vert
calle'L That's how that name originated y
Enquirer Interview with Senator Sherman.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
ADVICE To nUTHsKs.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth2 If SO.
send at once and get q bottle of Mr.
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II will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
NHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue Of an Execution and Fee Bill No 6uso,
issued out of the clerks Office of the circuit court
of Rock Island county, and state OF Illinois, and
10 me directed whereby am commanded to make
the amount of a certain Judgment recently OBJ
tanned against james Riley, in favor Of Jame-
NJ. Beardsley out of the lands, tenemenfs-
goods and chattels of the said defendant,
James Riley, have levied upon the following
property. towit:
Lots seven "a and ten t10l in block thirty four
(3i)t hieago or lower addition TO the city of Rock
island in the county of Rock Island and state OF
Illinois.
Therefore, according to said command ! shall
expose for sale al public auction, all the right,
title and interest Of the above named, James
Riley. in and to the above described property
on Thursday, the 25th day of May, 1887, at
O'Clock p. m the north door Of the court hou Sc
in the city of Rock Island. in the county of Rock
Island and state Of Illinois for cash in hand to
satisfy said execution and fee bill
Dated at Rock Island, this 9Th day Of May
A. d.. 1887. T. s SILVIS,
5-dtd Sheriff of Rock Island County. Illinois
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
PRIVATELY ILLUSTRATING BOOKS

By Inserting Cuts CuIIed from Works
Found i'm Old Print Shops.
Some of those amiable gentlemen who pass
much Of their time in practiciug the seductive
art of privately illustrating books by insert
ing cuts appropriate To the letter press, culled
from other works and found in old print
shops, may be surprised to learn that they are
members of sect. but Mr.. Laurence Hutton
seems Ia prove that they are. He says: "That
certain class of bihliomaniacs and hiblio-
laters should lie denounced as biblioclasts and
hiblophobians by all the great community of
biblio'iSts, bibliophilists, photographers,
biblopoSts, hihliologists, hibliopegists, biblio-
tolhsts, tsbliothecarys and bbliognostes
would seem to the lay mind, to imply very
serious condition of affairs. Yet this is, and
has been, exactly the position of the Granger
ties since the founder of this sect published
his great work lis years ago. James Granger
tcir 11l6-7fl vicar OF Shiplocke in Oxford
shire, was the founder Of the sect of private
illustrators.
John Hill Burton declares that the illus
traitor is the very Ishmaelite Of collectors his
hand is against every man who loves hooks,
aud every book lovers hand against his He
sake Of eprichins single volume of his own
with the portraits and other prints he finds in
them; and what is worse, as he does not
always make his ravAges known, many a
book Is sold TO the unwary person, who is
ignorant of the damaged condition of his
purchase.
Mr.. Burton could tell tales, he says, fitted
to make the blood run cold in the veins of the
slnguine book hunter about the devastations
of the Grangerites, who are in his eyes liter
AIRY AttilaS, the Geugis Khans of literary
plumber and pilage, spreading ruin and terror
around them; they are monsters-whether
green eyed OF not he is not quite prepared to
say-who do make the meat they feed on,
and becoming excited in their work, 90 on
ever widening the circle of their purveyances
| and opening new avenues toward the raw
material ON which they operate.-Book Buyer.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
ADVANTAGE OF ADVERTISING

How Rooms are started and Main
tanned How Western Towns are
Worked--The Secret OF Success.
Fix upon a spot in q staked plain with
no neighbors for thousands of miles ex-
cept prairie dog towns. the ''amoosing'
little horned frog, the festive ceniipede
and the belligerent tarsntula, and with no
civilization anywhere. with alkali water
9S proof, and not tree or cabin. or wet
weather branch in sixteen adjoining
counties; with no means of trsnsporta-
ton except paper railroads into the heart
of the wide desert wild, the eternal
swells of the prairie are the one monoto-
nous thing visible TO the eye-the poor
eve that is aching from the eternal Kan
sas zephyr that rollicks so playfully over
the boundless prairies. To all these
foundations for great city. the one and
only thing needful is for three sharp
boomers and a surveyor and a printing
press 10 arrive; plat the future great,
and the boom is stsrted-the boom is
made, the great work completed.
In this boom town a man with a keg on
end for bar advertises; the man with n
lot to sell advertises, the man with
dozen remnants of calico advertises his
colossal "fsir." Everyone advertises -
blows his horn. splits tie welkin-sounds
the hew. gag and beats the huzzy guZzy,
all rattle their tom toms -all in short adver-
tise, advertise their town, their boom.
their paper, their railroad. their every
thing; but they do advertise They do
not deny their master, they acknowledge
the boom, and AS soon as there are any
housetops in place. they get on them and
cry aloud. Indeed they do advertise
they are real boomers-boomers from
boomtown and they never forget it.
The results are known to all the world
Wonderful cities rise Phoenix like from
the wild waste of dreary bunch grass
colossal fortunes are made. and in six
weeks you will see lots 10 this wonderful
new place selling for more per front foot,
and actually selling. too. for more than
owners are asking for choice fifty foot
lots in old rich and populous towns,
where generation after generation has
vegetated, but has not advertised
Not so in Rock Island. Yet this is
what the ARGUS has advocated ever since
the commencement of its boom. Not
wholly like the Western Kansas towns
for we have something to advertise
yet we should talk aloud and proclaim
to distant parts the advantages of this
particular locality. We have the ad-
vantages over the western towns for in
putting forth our claims, we need not
depart from the truth. The merchant
has no hesitanCy in advertising his goods
and prices, and why SHOULD a tow n with the
advantages of Rock Island hesitate2 A
boom is paying operation. and it will
probably be one of the foremost steps of
the Committee of Twenty to adopt meas
ures of putting before eastern capitalists
and manufacturers the advantages of this
locality.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

The Josephine went down yesterday
with two barges.
The Josie cleared for the north with
four barges.
The Mary Morton will be here tomor-
row morning for St Paul.
Capt. John B. Davis, of this city, has
been promoted from the captaincy of the
birth vacated by Capt. Jas. Corbett, who
has retired from the river by reason of i'll
health. Miles Ruby will probably be
made master of the Josephine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
EXECUToR's NOTICE.

Estate Of Joseph P. Stroehe, Deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed Elk
ecuIrx If the last will and testament Of Joseph
p Struehle, late Of the county of Rock Island,
state Of Illinois. deceased, hereby gives notice
that she will appear before the county court of
Rock Island county. At the office of the clerk
Of said court, in the city of Rock Island, at the
July term. the Second Monday in July
next, at which time all persons having claims
against said estate are notified and requested to
atte nd for the purpose of having the same adj ust
ed. All persons indebted to said estate re-
Quested TO make immediate payment to the I'm
dersigned
Dated this nth dsv of NAV A n. 1887.
ELIZABETH STROEHLE, Executrix-
SWEENEY & WALKER Alt'ys. l0-diw
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

The first death at the Soldiers Home
in Quincy. occurred week ago today
II was that of Charles Mulherin, who car
ried q musket all through the war of the
rebellion. He was a native of ireland,
and enlisted at Rock Island in 1861. His
death resulted from consumption, con-
tracted while serving in Texas The de
ceased was a widower, aud leaves but one
child, Mary Mulherin, who resides in this
pitv
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
It's Curious Fact

That the body is now more susceptible
to benefit from medicine than at any
other season. Hence the importance of
taking Hoods sarsaparilla now, when it
will do you the most good 1t is really
wonderful for purifying and enrichiDg
the blood creating an appetite, and Civ
ing healthy tone to the whole system
Be sure to get Hoods sarsaparilla, which
is peculiar to itself
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
Working People

are often too ill to labor, but they havu't
time to take medicine and lay off Sim
mons liver regulator can be taken with
out causing any loss of time. aad the
system will be built up and invigorated
by 1t. 1t has no equal as a preparatory
medicine, and can he safely used when a
doctor cannot be called in. In all com
mon diseases it will. unassisted by any
other medicine. effect a speedy cure.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

Following is the report of st Luke s
hospital for April donations:
Rev. R F. Sweet, oranges; Mrs. Emil
Koehler, delicacies to sick; number of
patients admitted, 5; discharged, 3; re-
naming, 3; expenses for the mouth,
S1G9 SIS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
A DMINIsTRAToR's NOTICE.

Estate of Peter Haupt deceased
The undersigned. having been appointed admin
stratriX of the estate of Peter Haupt,
late Of the county of Rock Island. state of
Illinois, deceased. hereby gives notice that sh,
will appear before the county court of Rock Island
county at the office of the clerk of said court in
the city of Rock Island, at the June term on the
Third Monday in June next, at which time all
persons having claims against said estate are no
tilted and requ, sted to attend for the purpose of
having the same adjusted. All persons indebted
to said estate requested to make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
Dated this 9TH day Of May. A. D., 1887.
DORIS HAUPT.
]. l.. HA 8, Atty. Administrative.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

1t Is fashionable nowadays tas it has been
always To complain that all our great writers
and thinkers apA dead or dying and who is
there left to replace theml Dickens, Thack-
cray, George Eliot, Trollope and Reade are
gone Carlyle has ceased from his lifelong
wall; Darwin has left the less fit Ia survive;
Mill has joined the voteless majority Ma
cauley, Lytton and Disraeli have gone.
Acres the Atlantic, Emerson, Longfellow,
Hawthorne sleep in Sleepy Hollow; Lowell,
Holmes and Whittier belong to the elder and
passing generation Where are the juniors
who ought to he taking their vacant placess
If one ventures TO suggest rising name or
two in reply, the ohjector has always an easy
answer Young So and SO? Alb, he writes
poems, does hes No. no: never heard of
him" Or else. in more Dramatically mega
tive form, You don't mean to say you think
that fellow amounts to anythingT
The fact is, the men still labor, like Pitt,
under the fatal defect of being young; as
young as Tennyson and Thackeray and
Herbert Spencer were, at their age, no
younger.
Look at the critical journals of thirty or
forty years back, and You will find exactly
the same complaint made, and with exactly
the same measure of reason. Itwas then said =:
"All the grand old men of the grand old days
are dead or DIVING, and who is there left TO re-
place them" Why, young Mr.. Tepnyson,
who wrote those silly sing song verses of
"Oriana;" young Mr.. Dickens. the author of
th"~c vulgar catchpenny "Pickwick Papers. =
Young Mr.. Thackeray, who hangs about the
clubs and failed with the Luck of Barry
Lyndon
All the available prutoplasIn in the country
was not used up in the production of Tenny
son and Arnold and Browning. The reason
why no two or three names emerge cunSpicu-
ouSlv as vet among the younger men is not
because there are none to emerge, but be
cause. on the other hand. there are tar too
many. We live in an age when high genius
is drug III the market; the supply Of origi
naIity of briliancy, of first rate workman
ship Ear exceeds the effective demand. Fort
nightly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
BucKLEN,s ARNICasAI.yE

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

TO make buggy riding joy get set
of the Rice Coil carriage springs on
yours. Then you would sooner ride than
eat. Thousands say there's nothing like
1t. Thst's because it's true,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

Walking Conservatives is the latest
name for the fiorally decorated women
seen on the fashionable thoroughfares
and in snowy equipages.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
A FEMALE ENGINEER,
A Peculiar Occupation for n Woman
The Startling Adventures Of Hattie
M0rgans Upon a Locomotive in
England and Here.

n fecuIlhF OccupHtfob AvA " W VAho"--
The Startling adventures Of Hattie
Morgans Upon Locomotive in
England and Here.
There is one branch of labor that has
never been invaded by q woman 10 any
extent While she, in search of employ
ment. becomes a telegraph operator,
ticket agent, typesetter, typewriter. clerk,
saleswoman and even newspaper editor
and reporter, it has always been supposed
that she never sspired to be either an
engineer or fireman on a locomotive. But
Bridgeport, Conn. holds a woman in the
person of Hattie Morgsns, who has seen
but twenty three years, and who has been
stoker in England and engineer on a
freight engine in Connecticut. She has
bright colored, banged hair. large dark
eyes, and although her face is weather
beaten. she is quite handsome. She is
rather masculine in appearance, and of Il
determined expression of character. Her
story runs as follows:
IN LOVE WITH AN ENGINEER.
About five years ago. while she was iiv-
ing in London, she fell in love with Tom
Winnan. an engineer on the Flying
Scotchmsn." au express train which runs
between London and Edinburg. She
loved him fondly, and WAS never happy
except when he was near her She was
anxious to be constantly with him, and
its was arranged between them that She
should become his fireman. So she ar
rayed herself in coarse suit of meas
clothes. ard was at once transformed in
TO handsome young fireman Day
after day she attended to her duties. aud
the ponderous engine, No 362. with its
seven foot drivers, used to do the mile q
minute act over the heavy metals. Both
she aud Tom kept their secret well, and
she and Tom were to he married
HER LOVER KILLED.
But on one black day Tom WAS killed
hy being run over by shunted car, and
he died IN less than an hour with has
head in Hattie's lap ln her anguish her
secret was revealed.
She left England, which had 10 more
happiness for her. and came to this coun
Try She had some money. but it soon
uNI away, silt iVbiu Htti sue
must do something. SO again Disgusting
herself she applied for tiremans posi-
ton on locomotive on Connecticut
railroad She served nearly two years ac-
ceptably. and had been given Il freight
engine As she had seventy>four mile
run and % was the number of her engine,
it is believed that her run vas on the New
York division of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad. She worked
very well and showed her skill when her
engine got out of repair. She was finally
given the day express to run. and while
| there she killed two men One was walk
ing on the track and she blew the whistle
repeatedly. but he paid no attention and
the engine struck and mangled him. The
other man undertook to drive his wagon
over grade crossing, and both he and
his horse were mutilated past recognition
These accidents broke Hattie Morgans
! all up. She was eXonerated by the offs
cials, but she conld- not sleep, and she
says the men constantly appeared before
her.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

Finally she was running engine No
1870 with fast express at dhe rute of
fifty mics an hour. Far ahead on the
track she saw something which she
thought WAS piece of newspaper. As
she neared 1t she SAW it was little child
playing with the dit and stones. Its lit
tie life WAS crGsed out on the instant
Hattie tried her best to reverse the en-
CINE hut in vain When the tram stops
ped the engineer almost tainted That
was her last trip. The little child haunt
ed Der day and night aud sRe had a
severe fit of sickness. Then she re, umed
her pronrr dress.
She is now engaged to he married to
an engineer who has charge of sixty
horse power engine IN large factory
not far from New Haven She hopes on
her wedding tour to visit England and
show her husband he''Fyng Scotchmau,
where she received her first lessons in
rairoading. But she can never, she says
forget the lives that were crushed out
when she stood in the cab and sent the
locomotive along at almost lightning
speed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
A SPECIFIC MALARIA
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Nervous Prostra ton, !

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Prof. ". Y. Holcomhe, NJ. D.. 81 Fart stth St,
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16

People on the Pacific coast believe that
the French crown jewels will tiud then
way thither
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
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